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2021-11-25 Science & Technology

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Posted by badanov 2021-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Keeping the SEAL tubes?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-25 05:18|| 2021-11-25 05:18|| Front Page Top

#2 New Boomers? Ah, subs... thought it was going to be about conservative millennials...

Posted by Mercutio 2021-11-25 08:24|| 2021-11-25 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 With the improvements in MIRV control, the tube counts became less important. The biggest hurdle to retention of quality personel has been livability which has been pretty good of late, but is likely needing to be better over the lifespan of the new boats.
The 'silencing' of the boats has reached the point where Brit and French boats have run into each other while on patrol, and didn't even realize it until later. (They compared notes afterward and went "oops, that was us".)

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-25 10:38|| 2021-11-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Also, soon plain old SSN's with Virginia payload modules will be able to fire anything that can come out of a Mk. 41 VLS tube, which will become the standard for lots of stuff. A sea launchable LRSO with a nuke warhead will be a pretty formidable weapon.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-25 10:48|| 2021-11-25 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 As a person who has spent 4 yrs underwater, on 598 class boats, I salute these guys. A Navy study, in the 60s, indicated that after subs went into refueling 90% of the crew were married! After two patrol cycles only 5% were still married. After being gone for three months, some people would come back and want to be the “man” of the house, which caused all sorts of problems. If a member was not liked, he requested to leave the submarine service after patrol. One statement that might be used to make him unhappy, was “you’ll find your wife just like you left her, freshly f..ed”

Posted by Had Cooky 2021-11-25 11:01|| 2021-11-25 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 After being gone for three months, some people would come back and want to be the “man” of the house, which caused all sorts of problems.

A problem for anyone gone for more than a few days at a time. Mr. Wife eventually figured it out how to deal with the transition after the year he alternated the Middle East and home every two weeks. Also, while I was the family bookkeeper, I learnt it was important that he balanced the checkbook, which reminded him that while the company had him on a generous expense account when he travelled, at home our family finances had fewer zeroes before the decimal point.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-25 11:36|| 2021-11-25 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 AAHHH! Memories! Flyover ... Turnover ... Upkeep ... Sea Trials ... Underway on Patrol ... Halfway Night ... Turnover! Home! Let's not forget QUALS, QUALS, QUALS!! What's not to like?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-11-25 13:25|| 2021-11-25 13:25|| Front Page Top

#8 How about PTSD, “Authentication Failed”?

Posted by Black Bart Huperens2954 2021-11-25 14:04|| 2021-11-25 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 There was a saying “ only 1 day and a wake-up to go” . This meant today, tomorrow and the next day.

Posted by Had Cooky 2021-11-25 14:29|| 2021-11-25 14:29|| Front Page Top

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